Translation for '
jaw harp' from English to Russian
NOUN | a jaw harp | jaw harps | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- Bolduc became a regular player with Gauthier's troupe by 1928, playing the violin or the jaw harp.
- The Yakuts are the largest, and are known for their olonkho songs and the khomus, a jaw harp.
- This ensemble pairs the kotyapi with a jaw harp (kubing), suling, a pair of small double-headed drums known as "gandangan" (a drum now rarely used among the Maranao in favor of the single-headed dadabuan) and a single kulintang, in accompaniment to the bamboo poles used in the dance.
- Brent Arthur Titcomb (born August 10, 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor and musician. He plays guitar, percussion, harmonica, and jaw harp.
- In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of musical instruments, lamellophones are considered plucked idiophones, a category that includes various forms of jaw harp and the European mechanical music box, as well as the huge variety of African and Afro-Latin s such as the mbira and marimbula.
- Some non-orchestral instruments are used in addition to traditional ones, including a didgeridoo and an electronically-created jaw harp.
- While developing the industrial sound of his debut "Fireside Favourites" in 1980, the new album relied less on drum machines and found objects, introducing more traditional instruments such as accordion and jaw harp, as well as making more frequent use of female backing vocals.
- Duke Levine and Kevin Barry once again lent support on guitar along with Dave Dick on banjo and Entress on the jaw harp and percussion.
- Tommy Mansikka-Aho (didgeridoo, jaw harp, guitar, jaffa bottle) is a Finnish musician, active in folk music and popular music. He is a former member of the folk music group Gjallarhorn.
- They were often accompanied by the two most prevalent Ainu musical instruments: the "tonkori", a plucked zither, and the "mukkuri", a jaw harp played by women.
- The Toraja have indigenous musical instruments, such as the "Pa'pelle" (made from palm leaves) and the "Pa'karombi" (the Torajan version of a jaw harp).
- The word "komuz" is cognate to the names of other instruments in the Music of Central Asia, including the Kazakh "kobyz" (Uzbek "qo'biz") (bowed instruments), and the Tuvan and Sakha or Yakut "xomus" (a jaw harp).
- They have bamboo musical instruments, a kind of jaw harp, and a nose flute. On festive occasions, there is song and dance, both sexes decorating themselves with leaves.
- He has recently made numerous solo performances, usually with the long-necked banjo and jaw harp (his recent albums document this as well: 2006's "Ancestral Songs" and 2007's "Metempsychotic Melodies").
- So much information is conveyed by the tones that it is possible to speak intelligibly using musical tunes only; there is a tradition of young lovers communicating covertly this way by playing on a jaw harp (though this method may only convey vowel sounds).
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